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Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 0120

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 0120
Publication Number ined. OGL 120
Current Location Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Publication Permission Status permission for publication assigned
Publication Status unpublished

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos]
Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance District Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery archaeological excavation
Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser) Clermont-Ganneau, Charles
Certainty: high
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt Elephantine
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution excavation finds
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution) Tuckett, Francis Fox
Certainty: high

Object

Object Type ostracon
Dating between -254 and -251
Criteria for Dating palaeography, formula
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation Large parts broken off on top.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) large portion of the text missing, Demotic completely lost. Only the last line preserved.
Script, Primary Demotic
Script, additional A Greek
Language, Primary Demotic
Language, additional A Greek, Ancient
Comments on Handwriting documentary, bilingual Demotic alsmost completely lost Greek: hand of Petepiphis
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 2
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title receipt for salt tax
Ancient Archives private archive | inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Demotic receipt for salt tax almost completely lost, only last line with Greek subscript of Petepiphis preserved. Demotic issuer Phates, son of Hartophnachthes, according to the style of the formula.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Bilingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
x- - - - - - - - - - -
x+1demotic?
x+2
convex
x+3ἁλικῆς (δραχμήν) α

convex
x- - - - - - - -
x+1demot.?
x+2
x+3for salt tax 1 drachma
OGL_0120_S1_001
Reserved Copyright
OGL_0120-1_S1_001
Reserved Copyright
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
1745 man Petepiphis, son of Pachnoumis PꜢ-ḏỉ-Pp.t sꜢ Pa-H̱nm; Πετεπῖφις (Gen. Πετεπῖφιος) pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos 32 -35 -254 BCE -251 BCE date according to paleography and formula;

 

Pictures

OGL_0120_S1_001
Reserved Copyright
OGL_0120-1_S1_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 315807
last Change 29.07.2022
Author Jan Moje (Demotic); Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek)
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 315807 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre OGL 0120), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje (Demotic); Ruth Duttenhöfer (Greek).